George Bischof maintains his place on the Midas List thanks to the successful IPO of security hardware firm Barracuda Networks (IPO 2013) and the rising valuation of IPO-bound business-collaboration service Box. But the hot March IPO of portfolio company Model N fizzled last summer after the revenue-management software maker somehow failed to forecast its revenue accurately. Bischof joined Meritech

Capital Ventures in 2008 after spending eight years at Focus Ventures. It was at Focus where he led the firm's late-stage investments in EqualLogic (acquired by Dell for $1.4 billion in 2007), Quinstreet (IPO 2010) and Isilon Systems (acquired by EMC for $2.25 billion in 2010). Bischof has brought that experience over to Meritech where he has led the firm's investments in cybersecurity outfit BigFix (bought by IBM in 2010), Box, and Fusion-io (IPO 2011). Bischof grew up in the Bay Area and worked as a technology investment banker at Robertson Stephens.

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